Fedora Weekly News Issue 276

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 276[1] for the week ending May 25, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

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Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy
of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
several major new features with special focus on desktops, developers,
virtualization, security and system administration.

What's new in Fedora 15 (Lovelock)?

For desktop users

A universe of new features for end users:

GNOME 3 desktop environment -- GNOME 3 is the next generation of

GNOME with a brand new user interface. It provides a completely new
and modern desktop that has been designed for today's users and
technologies. Fedora 15 is the first major distribution to include
GNOME 3 by default. GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive
upstream participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers,
and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15. GNOME Shell, the new
user interface of GNOME 3, is polished, robust and extensible, and
several GNOME Shell extensions and the GNOME tweak tool are available
in the Fedora software repository. Thanks to the Fedora desktop team
developers and community volunteers.

Btrfs filesystem -- Btrfs, the next generation filesystem is being

developed with upstream participation of Red Hat developers, Oracle
and many others. Btrfs is now available as a menu item in the
installer (only for non-live images. live images support just Ext4)
and does not require passing a special option to the installer as in
the previous releases. Btrfs availability has moved up a notch as a
incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the default filesystem
in the next release of Fedora. The btrfsck program for performing
filesystem checks is under active development upstream with
participation from Fedora but the one included in this release is
still limited and hence users are highly recommended to maintain
backups when using this filesystem (backups are a good idea anyway!).
Thanks to Josef Bacik, Red Hat Btrfs developer, for his upstream
participation and integration of this feature in Fedora including a
yum plugin (yum-plugin-fs-snapshot) that enables users to rollback
updates if necessary, taking advantage of Btrfs snapshots.

Indic typing booster -- Indic typing booster is a predictive input

method for the ibus platform. It suggests complete words based on
partial input, and users can simply select a word from the suggestion
list and improve their typing speed and accuracy. Thanks to the
development led by Pravin Satpute and Naveen Kumar, Red Hat I18N team
engineers in Pune, India.

Better crash reporting -- ABRT, a crash reporting tool in Fedora,

can now perform a part of crash processing remotely, on a Fedora
Project server. Remote coredump retracing avoids users having to
download a large amount of debug information and leads to better
quality reports. The retrace server can generate good backtraces with
a much higher success rate than local retracing.

Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter -- SELinux troubleshooter is a

graphical tool that watches and analyses log files and automatically
provides solutions to common issues. In this release, this tool has
been redesigned to be simpler but provide more solutions at the same
time. Thanks to Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, for leading
the development of this functionality.

Higher compression in live images -- Live images in this release

use XZ compression instead of gzip as in older releases, making them
smaller (about 10%) to download or providing more space for
applications to be made available by default. Thanks to Bruno Wolff
III, Fedora community volunteer, for integrating this functionality in
Fedora Live CD tools. Thanks to Phillip Lougher for his work on
squashfs and Lasse Collin for getting XZ squashfs support in the
upstream Linux kernel.

Better power management -- Fedora 15 includes a redesigned and

better version of powertop and newer versions of tuned and pm-utils
for better power management. The tuned package contains a daemon that
tunes system settings dynamically to balance between power consumption
and performance. It also performs various kernel tunings according to
selected profile. The new version of tuned brings several bug fixes,
improvements and profiles updates for better efficiency. Thanks to
Jaroslav Škarvada, Red Hat developer, for integrating the newer
powertop and pm-utils, as well as performing power measurement and
benchmarking. Thanks to Jan Včelák, Red Hat developer, for developing
tuned and integrating the newer version in this release.

LibreOffice productivity suite -- LibreOffice is a community-driven

and developed free and open source personal productivity suite which
is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document
Foundation. It is a fork of OpenOffice.org with a diverse community
of contributors including developers from Red Hat, Novell and many
volunteers. OpenOffice.org has been replaced with LibreOffice in this
release. Thanks to Caolán McNamara from Red Hat for his upstream
participation and for maintaining LibreOffice in Fedora.

Firefox 4 web browser -- A new major version of this popular browser

from the Mozilla non-profit foundation is part of this release.
Firefox 4 features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster
than the previous version, new capabilities such as Firefox Sync,
native support for the patent unencumbered WebM multimedia format,
HTML5 technologies and a completely revised user interface. Thanks to
Christopher Aillon from Red Hat and others for integrating Firefox 4
in this release.

KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments --

Fedora 15 includes new major versions of these alternative desktop
environments. Fedora also provides dedicated KDE Plasma Workspaces
and Xfce installable live images that include these desktop
environments by default. Thanks to Red Hat developers and other Fedora
community volunteers, part of KDE and Xfce special interest groups.

Sugar .92 learning platform -- Sugar is a desktop environment

originally designed for the OLPC project which has now evolved into a
learning platform developed by the non-profit Sugar Labs foundation.
This version provides major usability improvements for the first login
screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support
for 3G networks. Thanks to Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas,
Fedora community volunteers, for leading the integration of this
environment.

For developers

For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:

Robotics Suite -- Fedora 15 now includes the Robotics Suite, a

collection of packages that provides a usable out-of-the-box robotics
development and simulation environment. This ever-growing suite
features up-to-date robotics frameworks, simulation environments,
utility libraries, and device support, and consolidates them into an
easy-to-install package group. Refer to
https://rmattes.blogspot.com/2011/05/fedora-15-robotics-suite.html for
more details. Thanks to Tim Niemueller and Rich Mattes, Fedora
community volunteers for their participation.

GCC 4.6 -- GCC 4.6 is the system default compiler in Fedora 15 and

all the relevant packages have been rebuilt in Fedora 15 using it.
Developers can realize compiled code improvements and use the newly
added features, such as improved C++0x support, support for the Go
language, REAL*16 support in Fortran and many other improvements.
Thanks to Jakub Jelinek from Red Hat for upstream participation and
leading the integration in Fedora.

GDB 7.3 -- This new GDB release 7.3 together with Archer and Fedora

extensions improves the debugging experience on Fedora by making the
debugger more powerful. The majority of these features were written by
Red Hat engineers, thus benefiting all gdb users. New features for the
Fedora 15 release include support for breakpoints at SystemTap markers
(probes), support for using labels in the program's source, OpenCL
language debugging support, thread debugging of core dumps and Python
scripting improvements. Numerous important packages within Fedora are
pre-built with SystemTap static markers, and these can now be used as
the target for breakpoints in gdb. Thanks to Jan Kratochvil and other
GDB developers from Red Hat for their upstream participation and
integration of this functionality.

Programming language updates -- Python 3.2: The system Python 3

stack has been upgraded to 3.2 (the system Python 2 stack remains at
2.7), bringing in hundreds of fixes and tweaks; for a list of changes
refer to https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html. OCaml 3.12:
OCaml 3.12 is a major revision of the OCaml programming language, the
camlp4 macro language, libraries, and CDuce for XML processing. Rails
3.0.5: Rails 3 is a large update to the Ruby on Rails web framework.
It brings many new features such as a polished routing API, new
activemailer and activerecord APIs, and many more new enhancements.
Thanks to Dave Malcolm, Richard W.M. Jones and Mo Morsi, Red Hat
developers leading the integration of the respective features in this
release.

Maven 3 -- Maven 3.0 offers better stability and performance

compared to previous versions and a lot of work under the hood to
simplify writing Maven plugins and further improve performance by
building projects in parallel. Refer to
https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html for more
information. Fedora still provides maven2 package to support
backward compatibility where needed. Thanks to Red Hat developer,
Stanislav Ochotnický for the work in this feature.

For system administrators

And don't think we forgot the system administrators:

systemd system and session manager -- systemd is a system and

session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts.
systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket
and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting
of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports
snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and
automount points and implements a powerful transactional
dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in
replacement for sysvinit. A related change is /var/run and /var/lock
are mounted from tmpfs and results in a simpler, more faster and
robust boot-up scheme and aligns to the default configuration of
several other distributions. Thanks to Lennart Poettering, Rahul
Sundaram. Michal Schmidt, Bill Nottingham and others from Red Hat for
leading development and integration of systemd as the default init
system in this release and many Fedora community volunteers for their
extensive testing and feedback.

Dynamic firewall -- Dynamic firewall makes it possible to change

firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and makes
persistent connections possible. This is for example very useful for
services, that need to add additional firewall rules including
virtualization (libvirtd) and VPN(openvpn). With the static firewall
model these rules are lost if the firewall gets modified or restarted.
The firewall daemon (firewalld) holds the current configuration
internally and is able to modify the firewall without the need to
recreate the complete firewall configuration; it is also able to
restore the configuration in a service restart and reload case.
Another use case for the dynamic firewall mode is printer discovery.
For this the discovery program will be started locally that sends out
a broadcast message. It will most likely get an answer from an unknown
address (the new printer). This answer will be filtered by the
firewall, because the answer is not related to the broadcast and the
port of the program that was sending out the message is dynamic and
therefore a fixed rule can not be created for this. It also has a
D-BUS interface to allow clients or services to request firewall
changes. firewall-cmd (part of firewalld package) is a very simple
yet powerful user space alternative to the iptables command: for
instance, firewall-cmd --enable --service=samba --timeout=10 opens
the appropriate ports for Samba for only ten seconds. Since the
current implementation is a proof of concept, in this release, it is
available in the Fedora software repository but not installed by
default. The plan is to make it the default firewall solution in the
next release. Thanks to Thomas Woerner from Red Hat for developing
this feature.

BoxGrinder appliance creator -- BoxGrinder is a set of free and

open source tools used for building appliances (images/virtual
machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2). BoxGrinder
creates appliances from simple plain text appliance definition files.
Thanks to Marek Goldmann and others from Red Hat for upstream
participation and bringing this feature into Fedora.

Spice integration in Virt Manager -- With Fedora 15, virt-manager

has been updated to support Spice, the complete open source solution
for interaction with virtualized desktops. It is now possible to
create a virtual machine with Spice support without touching the
command line, easily taking advantage of all the Spice enhancements
directly from virt-manager. Spice provides better performance and
additional functionality (such as copy/paste between guest and host)
compared to using VNC. Thanks to the spice-gtk library, a new client
can be developed in Python or C, or with gobject-introspection
bindings. Thanks to Marc-André Lureau, Red Hat developer, for
leading development of this feature.

Consistent network device naming -- Servers often have multiple

Ethernet ports, either embedded on the motherboard, or on add-in PCI
cards. Linux has traditionally named these ports ethX, but there has
been no correlation of the ethX names to the chassis labels - the ethX
names are non-deterministic. Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports
will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations,
rather than ethX. By changing the naming convention, system
administrators will no longer have to guess at the ethX to physical
port mapping, or invoke workarounds on each system to rename them into
some "sane" order. This feature is enabled on all physical systems
that expose network port naming information in SMBIOS 2.6 or later.
Thanks to Jordan Hargrave, Matt Domsch and several other engineers
from Dell for their long term upstream participation and collaboration
with Fedora in integration of this feature.

Setuid removal -- Fedora 15 removes setuid in several applications

and instead specifically assigns the capabilities required by each
application to improve security by reducing the impact of any
potential vulnerabilities in these applications. Thanks to Daniel
Walsh from Red Hat for leading the integration of this feature.

Improved support for encrypted home directory -- Fedora 15 brings

in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem
for Linux. Starting from Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to
automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory
when a user logs in. Thanks to Paolo Bonzini from Red Hat for
integration of this feature.

RPM 4.9.0 package manager -- RPM 4.9.0 brings a number of immediate

benefits to Fedora including the pluggable dependency generator,
built-in filtering of generated dependencies, additional package
ordering hinting mechanism, performance improvements and many
bugfixes. More details at https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0,
Thanks to Panu Matilainen from Red Hat and other RPM developers for
their participation and help in integration of this feature in this
release.

Tryton ERP system -- Tryton is a three-tier general-purpose

application platform and basis for an ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning) system. Currently, the main modules available for Tryton
cover accounting, invoicing, sale management, purchase management,
analytic accounting and inventory management Thanks to Dan Horák,
Fedora community volunteer for integration of this feature.

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of
all the new features on board Fedora 15 is available at:

Fedora spins

Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora tailored for various
types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations.
Fedora spins include those providing alternative desktop environments
like KDE, Xfce and LXDE by default but also more specialized ones such
as Fedora Security Lab, Fedora Electronics Lab and Fedora Design
Suite. More information on these spins and much more is available at

Looking forward to Fedora 16 (Verne)

Our next release, Fedora 16 codename is named after and to honor,
Jules Verne. Jules Verne is considered a father of science-fiction.
He was a science-fiction writer and futurist, best known for novels
such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". More information at

Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
to improve the Fedora 15 experience, our next release, Fedora 16, is
already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
an end of Oct 2011 release:

Features planned for Fedora 16 include the default use of Btrfs as the
next generation filesystem, GRUB 2 bootloader by default, further
enhancements to systemd system and session manager, dynamic firewall
by default and much much more. Watch the feature list page for
updates.

Join us today and help improve free and open source software and lead
the future of Linux.

We need your help!

Our rapid release cycle and innovative features are a direct result of
development of thousands of upstream projects and collaboration by a
large distributed and diverse community with many volunteers and
organizations across the globe, participating in the free and open
source software community and within Fedora. Fedora strives to bring
these thousands of upstream projects together and serves as a
integration point for them and for our users and contributors. Red
Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions is a partner in our
community and major sponsor of the Fedora project. To continue to
advance and bring you the best of free software quickly and robustly.
we are always looking for more people to join us in the Fedora
community. You don't have to be a dazzling software programmer to
participate and join us in developing Fedora although if you are one,
you are welcome too! There are many ways to contribute beyond
programming. You can report bugs, help translate software and content,
test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit
documentation, design and do artwork, perform system administration on
our infrastructure, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and
package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide
and more. Whether you are a Linux kernel hacker or just a newcomer,
there is always something for everyone to pitch in.

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 15

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora
14. CBI[2] is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.

We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME
Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM.
Download at[3]. Or just download and install
[4]
to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository.

It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of
you there are, the more bugs we can find.

We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the
way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 15,
we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable
even on older distributions.

Outage: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC

"There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31,
which will last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels.

Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption to services.

In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy and fail-over.

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.
Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding.
In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an ArsTechnica article on the release of Fedora 15:

"The community of open source software developers behind the Fedora Linux
distribution announced this week the release of version 15. The update
brings an overhauled desktop user interface and a number of noteworthy
architectural improvements under the hood.

Fedora is a community-driven Linux distribution that is sponsored by Red
Hat. It is released twice a year on a six-month development cycle and
typically ships with the latest cutting-edge Linux software. Fedora is
known for riding ahead of the curve and is often the first Linux distro
to introduce major new features. It also serves as an incubation space
for emerging Red Hat technologies, particularly in areas like
virtualization. It lacks the usability and robustness of some other
distros, but its unique technical advantages and high commitment to open
source ideology are appealing to system administrators, software
developers, and software freedom advocates.

The most significant user-facing change in Fedora 15 is the inclusion of
GNOME 3.0, a major update of the open source GNOME desktop environment.
It brings a completely new desktop shell to Fedora that helps to
modernize the user experience. The new shell is built with the Clutter
toolkit and requires hardware-accelerated rendering in order to operate.
Fedora fortunately does a pretty good job of handling it with open
source drivers on many hardware configurations."

Fedora 15: More than just a pretty interface (The Register UK)

"The Red Hat–backed Fedora Project has released the latest version of its
Linux-based operating system, Fedora 15, into the wild.

Despite the similarities of the two leading Linux-based PC operating
systems, Fedora has long played second fiddle to Ubuntu in the minds of
many Linux fans. Now – for the first time – there are actually major
differences between the two distros.

For most users, the debate between the two can be distilled down to
GNOME 3 versus Unity. But as always, Fedora remains quite a bit
different under the surface, as well.

With the Unity Shell making waves – and not always good ones – in the
Ubuntu community, Fedora 15 offers something of a refuge for those
frustrated with the Unity Shell.

Unfortunately GNOME 3, Fedora's new default desktop, while in much
better shape than Ubuntu's Unity, is still very different than any
version of GNOME you've used before."

How GNOME 3 is besting Ubuntu Unity (Techrepublic.com)

"Takeaway: Jack Wallen was jonsing for GNOME 3 and discovered the best
route to this new desktop was Fedora 15 beta. Can you image how
surprised Jack was to find out that GNOME 3 blows away Ubuntu Unity?
Read on to find out more."

Conclusion: "I’d like to drop some props to the Fedora 15 team, as
they’re doing an absolutely incredible job with this bleeding-edge Linux
distribution. Fedora 15 and GNOME 3 is a serious win-win from my
perspective. Give it a go, and you might find that you agree!"

Fedora 15 Released; Comes With Gnome 3

"The best features of Fedora 15, which will attract a lot of users is
Gnome 3 shell. Fedora 15 will give users a distro which will allow then
to explore Gnome 3 with the stability that Fedora 15 offers.

Fedora 15 is also introducing Btrfs as a menu item in the installer
(only for non-live images. live images support just Ext4) and does not
require passing a special option to the installer as in the previous
releases. Btrfs availability has moved up a notch as a incremental step
towards the goal of Btrfs as the default filesystem in the next release
of Fedora."

Fedora 15's five best features (ZDNet.com)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about Fedora 15's top five features; Rahul writes:

This list doesn't cover major features like systemd and talks about
Fedora not including Chrome ignoring the fact that Chrome is a
proprietary browser. Chromium is not included for other reasons and
quick a search in the wiki documents that. However the list of five
is interesting

Welcome New Ambassadors

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Ben Williams posted a reminder [1] about FAmNA meeting on 2011-05-18 at 2100 EDT [2] and later [3] posted the Minutes [4]

Onyeibo Oku informed [5] about an upcoming talk at the Enugu State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Architects on "Linux for the Nigerian AEC Industry" [6]. Pierros Papadeas suggested [7] including references to CAD and Management software.

Tom Callaway reminded [17] that the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement [18] is required to be signed by 2011-06-17

Robert Beatty wanted to know [19] the steps for ordering the Ambassador Polo Shirt featured for EMEA Ambassadors. Christoph Wickert responded [20] with a step-wise list of things to do. However, Ben Williams indicated the steps for FAmNA [21] as the original request was from an Ambassador in the US.

On behalf of FAmSCo, Neville A. Cross posted [31] a link to the Survey for Fedora Ambassadors [32] around the Fedora Board Goals for 2011. Christoph Wickert requested individual Ambassadors [33] to refrain from responding after completing the survey.

Christoph Wickert informed [35] about preparations for the primary media shipment for Fedora 15 in EMEA. The shipment would consist of around 3000 Multi Desktop DVDs and 3000 Bi-arch Installation DVDs. And, specific anchor points (of contact) would receive larger volumes of media in order to enable further distribution to the local communities.

Test Days

The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1].

Fedora 15 validation and preparation

This was a quiet week after the declaration that Fedora 15 was gold on Tuesday, so the group worked on updating the Fedora 15 common bugs page[1] and tried to help with getting the Sugar desktop into a releasable state[2], and made sure 0-day updates for the release were being properly tested. James Laska worked on[3] and announced[4]providing a validation framework for the newly-introduced multi-desktop DVD live image[5], and along with Andre Robatino and Christoph Wickert, performed the required testing.

Release criteria revisions

Adam Williamson proposed some more release criteria changes. First up was logging[1]. James Laska suggested a refinement[2], and Adam posted a revised proposal[3], which was met with general approval. Later, Adam announced that he had created the criteria pages for Fedora 16[4], and including the new logging criterion, along with some other criteria which had previously been agreed upon but not added to the Fedora 15 criteria. He also re-started the discussion of how to refer to desktops that are considered able to block the release as compared to those that are not, and suggested the term 'release-blocking desktops'. Jóhann Guðmundsson re-raised the question of which desktops should be considered to block the release[5], and Adam maintained that this was a question that was beyond the authority of the QA group to decide[6]. Finally, Adam also proposed a criterion regarding security issues[7] for discussion by the QA group along with the security and development groups.

Housekeeping tasks

Adam Williamson noted that there are several tasks nominally under the Bugzappers group's remit that had not been happening recently[1], and suggested running a meeting to ensure they would be looked after. Robyn Bergeron replied that several of the tasks were really her responsibility as program manager[2], but agreed that it would be a good idea to improve the scheduling and planning of these tasks to make it less likely they would not be completed in future.

QA approval of release candidates

Adam Williamson reported[1] that he had updated the Go/No-Go meeting wiki page[2] to define the parameters for QA's approval or otherwise of release candidate builds, to make it clear that QA's decision in this regard is entirely determined by concrete criteria (whether all necessary validation tests have been completed and no unaddressed accepted release blocker bugs remain), so that there is no subjectivity to the decision and it can be reported to the Go/No-Go meeting by any member of the QA group (or simply inferred by anyone present at the meeting, whether a member of the QA team or not). Jóhann Guðmundsson questioned whether the Go/No-Go meeting was even necessary, given the improved procedures[3]. Adam agreed that this was a reasonable question[4], but suggested it might be a good idea to preserve the meeting as a 'human in the loop' safeguard against particularly strange and unforeseeable circumstances.

Triage scripts updated (again!)

Following quickly on the heels of last week's 1.0 RC1, Matej Cepl announced the release of version 1.0 of his Firefox extension to aid in bug triage, bugzilla-triage-scripts[1]. He asked all Bugzappers with Firefox 4 to update to it and report back on how it worked.

AutoQA

The AutoQA team updated their progress as usual at the weekly QA meeting of 2011-05-23[1]. Kamil Paral reported that the team had been working on the proposed 'pretty' plaintext logs, with two proposals: one[2] and two[3]. Tim Flink had been working on the proposed 'spam reduction' code, making AutoQA output less overwhelming for developers, and would be pushing it soon. Josef Skladanka had been working on a wiki page giving an overview of the ResultsDB project[4].